Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . I think I have that right. I loved the power displayed in that TV show. And today you've got to love the power of IBM's new Blue Gene/P.

"designed to break the "Quadrillion" barrier"

"the most energy-efficient and space-saving computing package ever built"

"speeds in excess of three petaflops"

"100,000 times more powerful than a home PC"

And my favorite - "can process more operations in one second than the combined power of a stack of laptop computers nearly 1.5 miles high"

And it doesn't even need to wear a cape.

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